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☆ Brill's disease (brilz)

a form of epidemic typhus fever in which the disease recurs years after the original infection
also called Brill-Zinsser disease Brill-Zins′·ser disease (bril′zin′sər)

Etymology: after N. E. Brill (1860-1925), U.S. physician

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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